What Trump tweeted:
“In Detroit, there are FAR MORE VOTES THAN PEOPLE. Nothing can be done to cure that giant scam. I win Michigan!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020″
The data (here):
Number of registered voters in Detroit: 504,714
Number of votes cast in Detroit: 250,138
For the approximately 70% of all Republicans who can’t do grade school arithmetic (poll results here), 250,138 is not more than 504,714. A fair question is, Why do these people believe Trump’s lies? CNN commentator Chris Cizilla says,
“The problem is that lots and lots of Trump’s most loyal supporters don’t consume ANY news or information from ANY outlets that are not either the President’s own Twitter feed or TV networks he has wrapped around his finger — One America News Network, Newsmax and, to a slightly lesser extent, Fox News Channel. And so, the information they are getting on this election comes in the form of misinformation. Trump tweeting about voting machine fraud (not true) or ballots being burned (not true) or Republican poll watchers being thrown out of voting sites (not true).”
Garbage in, garbage out. The rest of the GOP is complicit in this, because “it is incumbent upon Republican elected officials to speak up,” but instead are dancing around the issue, because they’re cowards afraid of angering Trump’s supporters — this isn’t exactly their finest hour.
It doesn’t matter. Votes decide elections, not what Trump says, or his supporters choose to believe.
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